Awards
Each year, the WCSA issues a number of awards to recognize the best new work in the field of Working Class Studies. The review process is organized by the past president of the WCSA and the WCSA awards committee. Below is a list of past recipients.

We look forward to next year's awards and hope you will submit your work for review. Due dates and guidelines are published in the fall, in the WCSA newsletter.

2011 WCSA Award Winners
Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism
Chris Hedges (text), Joe Sacco (photography), "City of Ruins"
Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
Jeanne Bryner, No Matter How Many Windows: Poems
CLR James Award for Best Book
Jarod Roll, Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South
CLR James Award for Best Article
Heath W. Carter, "Scab Ministers, Striking Saints: Christianity and Class Conflict in 1894 Chicago"

2010 WCSA Award Winners
Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism
Michael Zweig, Trish Dalton, Mike Konopacki, "Why are we in Afghanistan?"
Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
Jenifer Rae Vernon, Rock Candy
CLR James Award for Best Book
Steven K. Ashby, C.J. Hawking, Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement
CLR James Award for Best Article
Elna C. Green, "Relief from Relief: The Tampa Sewing-Room Strike of 1937 and the Right to Welfare"
Constance Coiner Dissertation Award
Tiffany Knight Raymond, Labor, Performance, and Theatre: Strike Culture and the Emergence of Organized Labor in the 1930's

2009 WCSA Award Winners
Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism
Gabriel Thompson, "Meet the Wealth Gap"
Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
John Marsh, You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41
CLR James Award for Best Book
David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants
CLR James Award for Best Article
Alan Derickson, "'Asleep and Awake at the Same Time': Sleep Denial among Pullman Porters"
Constance Coiner Dissertation Award
Michele Fazio, Between Mothers and Sons: Narrative Performances of American Identities in Italian-American Literature

2007 WCSA Award Winners
Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism
Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class
Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing
Jim Daniels and Charlee Brodsky, Street
CLR James Award for Best Book or Article
Nicholas de Genova, Working the Boundaries: Race, Space and 'Illegality' in Mexican Chicago
Constance Coiner Dissertation Award
Terry Easton, Temporary Work, Contingent Lives: Race, Immigration, and Transformations of Atlanta's Daily Work, Daily Pay